On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
Anything 3D would be troublesome for a web app, anything that needs
speed or high performance, heavy computation... etc. I also
personally don't like the paradigm of "everything in the browser" --
although I did carefully consider it when I started to write the RF
data plotting application I'm currently writing, because writing for
the browser does have immediate cross-platform benefits.
Another immediate benefit that may or may not apply to an application
such as your RF data plotting app is immediate internetworkability. I
have a couple virtual assistants, and Google Calendar & Google Docs,
Freshbooks, Clarity Accounting (or a similar online accounting
system), Sugar (or another online CRM) etc. become exceedingly
important when your office support staff aren't on premises. Way back
when you were trying to do consulting work from 100 miles away from
your office, internet apps would have probably come in handy. You're
technical enough to remote in to a work computer, but not everyone is
-- and I don't even WANT my VAs to log into my computer and use it --
although that's one of the options we had. The ability to work on the
same files in the same application at the same time is a godsend when
my office assistants are 30-1000 miles away.
As more people are using services such as VAs, those online
applications become much more handy. I don't love having my data in
the cloud, but it became a choice amongst poor options such as having
to pass my files back & forth with an assistant, always having to
worry about who had the "latest version" or having someone remotely
logging into my computer. These are not good answers to my situation,
and hiring a local to work in my home was also not an option.
Crisses
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